The guests were greeted by Andi Dobrushi, Executive Director of the Open Society Foundation in Albania (OSFA), and BIRN’s English-language editor Marcus Tanner.
Reporter.al is a general news website designed to promote excellence in journalism, with a particular focus on investigative reporting, with stories that cover the war against corruption and impunity in the country.
The interactive website will publish investigative stories, analyses, reports and blogs, but also features from Albania and the region in the local language.
Through the website, BIRN will expand its reporting from Albania with special projects on media development, culture, elections and human rights.
Since it went live on September 1, the website has received more than 150,000 visitors.
The online publication is supported by the Open Society Foundation in Albania (OSFA), National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the Balkan Trust for Democracy (BTD).